Who Was Alive

Lope de Vega

Spanish playwright and poet

Born 25 November 1562 · died 27 August 1635, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Lope de Vega?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Suleiman the Magnificent
  4. Michel de Montaigne
  5. Elizabeth I of England
  6. Akbar
  7. Miguel de Cervantes
  8. Giordano Bruno
  9. Francis Bacon
  10. Lope de Vega
  11. Galileo Galilei
  12. William Shakespeare
  13. Johannes Kepler
  14. Peter Paul Rubens
  15. Thomas Hobbes
  16. René Descartes
  17. Diego Velázquez
  18. Rembrandt
  19. John Milton
  20. Jean de La Fontaine
  21. Molière
  22. Blaise Pascal
  23. John Locke
  24. Benedictus de Spinoza
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When Lope de Vega was born, Michelangelo was 87, Francis Bacon was 1, Elizabeth I of England was 29, Akbar was 20 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 68.

When Lope de Vega died, Galileo Galilei was 71, René Descartes was 39, Molière was 13, John Locke was 2 and Rembrandt was 29.

Born during Lope de Vega’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal and Johannes Kepler.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born 8 years after Lope de Vega died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born 11 years after Lope de Vega died, Matsuo Bashō was born 9 years after Lope de Vega died and Louis XIV of France was born 3 years after Lope de Vega died.

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  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  12. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  24. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
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